Agent-Based Intelligent Multimedia Broadcasting within MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework

  • Kim, Mun-Churl (The School of Engineering, Information and Communications University(ICU)) ;
  • Lim, Jeong-Yeon (The School of Engineering, Information and Communications University(ICU)) ;
  • Kang, Kyeong-Ok (Digital Broadcasting Research Division, ETRI) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Woong (Digital Broadcasting Research Division,ETRI,)
  • Received : 2003.04.09
  • Published : 2004.04.30

Abstract

It is expected that an intelligent broadcasting service (IBS) will be able to provide broadcast programs based on user preference and program-associated information (metadata) in order to assist users in easy navigation of the program content being broadcast. In this way, users will be able to access program content anytime, anywhere, and in the manner they wish. This type of IBS will be a basis for future broadcasting services such as customized broadcasting or personal casting. In this paper, we introduce an agent-based multimedia broadcasting framework using the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and MPEG-7 technologies within MPEG-21. We use a FIPA implementation called FIPA open source as a platform for exchanging user preferences and program information as FIPA messages between a server and its clients. The user preference is modeled as the User Preference description scheme in MPEG-7 multimedia description schemes. We discuss a framework structure and implementation for the IBS.

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